Nanoassembly Using a Nanohand

A "nanohand" is a small gripper, small enough to manipulate nanotubes and nanofibres. This video shows how to pick and place nanofibres using a nanohand, to construct a nanodevice: a super-probe for atomic force microscopy.

It takes a lot of work to get this far; and much more to get further: how about a virtual reality world where you can pick nanotubes with your own hands, while the nanogripper does it with 10,000 times smaller fingers? How about an assembly line, a factory for building nanotube devices? Two big European projects, Nanorac and Nanohand, are now trying to make this reality.